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This Abandoned Hospital Isn't From A Zombie Movie
Although this photo might look like a screengrab from a dystopian video game, or a made-for-TV zombie film, it's actually taken in the middle of a bustling city in the UK.
Scan Reveals This Buddha Statue Has A Mummy Inside
This is no ordinary Buddha statue. As the CT scan at the right clearly shows, there's a mummy concealed inside!
This Crazy Chair Builds Itself
Building flat-pack furniture is a major pain in the ass, so much so that a MIT team has spent years and millions of dollars solving the problem. Actually, that's not quite true: the problem they're trying to solve is actually a far more exciting one, even if it won't benefit Ikea quite yet.
A Clever Push Pin Doesn't Make Holes
Push pins and a corkboard are the most basic organisational tool around, but they kinda suck for photos — in order to stick them up, you stab a tiny hole through your grandma's face. This neat alternative tries to solve that.
Snack Smarter with NatureBox: Free Sample of Delicious Snacks
Snacking is always great, that is until the feeling of guilt sets in and, despite eating a bag of chips, you still find yourself hungry. Luckily NatureBox, the smarter snacking delivery company, has solved this problem. Get a free trial box now and leave behind the unnecessary junk food without missing out on joy and…
How 'Defensive Architecture' Is Ruining Our Cities
Cities have always struggled with the tension between the different needs of social classes who share the space. But as The Guardian documents, a new trend of defensive — and some times overtly hostile — architecture is changing the urban landscape, and not in a good way.
NASA Satellite Image Shows How Damn Cold It Is
Forget looking at historical temperature graphs and referencing how cold the North Pole is: to get your head around how goddamn frozen you are right now, just locate your house on this satellite picture, and let out a hollow, chilled laugh as you succumb to the hypothermia.
Nissan's 'Father Of The Z,' And Rogue Exec Katayama Yutaka Dies At 105
Katayama Yutaka (editor's note: family name first), former executive of Nissan USA and responsible for building the Datsun/Nissan Z (known as the Fairlady in Japan) into a well known brand in the 70s, has died at the age of 105.
This Fantastic Supercut Celebrates 10 Years Of YouTube's Best Videos
YouTube is celebrating 10 years of cat videos and Downfall parodies this month, and to celebrate, The Daily Conversation put 101 of the site's most important, funniest and worst viral videos into this supercut.
Removing A Tunneling Machine From The Ground Is Strangely Difficult
Tunnel-boring machines are genuine marvels of modern technology — self-contained contraptions big enough to build entire subway tunnels, a job that used to require thousands of pick-axes and the sacrifice of quite a few lives. But once construction is finished, getting the machines out can take months.
What's Your Dumbest Internet Purchasing Fail?
Amazon is great and all, but an unfortunate side-effect of buying stuff sight unseen on the 'net is that sometimes you end up with stuff you didn't really mean to buy. I'm not saying that's the reason I have three power strips for European plugs under my bed, but...yeah. I should probably read the description more…
Lenovo Made An Automatic Removal Tool For Its Adware Mess
Lenovo's pre-installation of the Superfish adware is one of the biggest fuck-ups the company could have made, but at least it's cleaning up fairly quickly: it created a custom uninstall tool to clean your computer of the program and its certificates, and in a responsibly transparent move, also posted the source code…
Amazon's Unveils a Huge Movie and Ebook Sale, Plus More Deals
Need something to pass the time until House of Cards comes back next week? Today only, Amazon's offering big savings on award-winning Kindle ebooks and streaming movies to own. The most popular book on the list is Life of Pi ($3), and Boyhood ($7) highlights the movies, but it's a deep and impressive list of…
This Japanese Robot Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run
Okay, it's not exactly a robot—but I bet it's still the craziest thing you've seen all day. Japanese juice and ketchup company Kagome built a freaking wearable tomato dispenser for a runner at the Japan Marathon this weekend.
Why Flying Cars Are Difficult And Dumb
By this stage, it's fairly clear that flying cars aren't going to happen any time soon, despite what the media might want to say. And there's a simple reason for that — the whole concept of flying cars is pretty stupid in the first place.
This F-16 Viper Managed To Fly Back To Base Missing Half A Wing
Last October there was a nearly fatal collisionbetween two F-16 Vipers from the 125th Fighter Squadron of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. All we knew at the time was that one of the jets went down in a field after the pilot safely ejected, while the other managed to land with a damaged wing. But "damaged" was…
Drone footage reveals the alien world that is a frozen Niagara Falls
Pick your pop culture reference—the Fortress of Solitude or Hoth—and brush the mountains in cotton candy white and add water raging underneath the frozen sheets and you get a little bit close to what Niagara Falls looks like right now. NBC News has footage of the frozen Niagara Falls and it looks like another planet.
The crappy photos of NASA's golden era you never get to see
We are used to see the epic, awe-inspiring, perfect photos from the golden age of NASA, during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Those are not the photos that you will find in Drewatts Bloomsbury's auction. These are all pretty shitty—poorly exposed, badly framed, out of focus, or just plain boring.
How one of the most complicated watches in the world is made
I don't wear a watch and I hate time and yet I'm still so very impressed with the movement of this watch by FP Journe. It's stunning and it is the most complicated watch that FP Journe makes because it's a grande sonniere watch. Which means, it's a complication that is able to audibly chime out the time.
Video: The delicate art of making bonsai trees
I love this video about Ryan Neil, an American Bonsai master, because not only do I get to watch him work but I also get to hear him talk about the art of Bonsai. Neil reveals the amount of respect and consideration you need to be able to craft these beautiful pieces of art from nature. It's just lovely.
The Double Cyclone Disaster That Smashed into Australia This Week
Here you can see a composite satellite photo of two cyclones hitting northern Australia within six hours of each other this week. In the upper left is Cyclone Lam, and in the lower right is Cyclone Marcia. It's beautiful but also terrifying.
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